If you want to learn about a place where the Church and ArchCare, the archdiocesan health care agency, are doing a lot of good these days, listen to this story about a family, a special corps of …
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Sister Catherine Howard, O.P., who served as president of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt for six years, died Nov. 9 at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in Nyack. She was 67.
She was president of …
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Sister Barbara Ann Walenty, M.M., who served for many years in nursing, died Oct. 24 at Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining. She was 90.
Most recently, she did family ministry and pastoral work …
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Sister Rhea Bean, R.S.M., a former president of St. Catharine Academy in the Bronx, died Sept. 26 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. She was 79.
Sister Rhea served as acting principal and president …
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Father Robert Depinet, M.M., who served in the Philippines for 41 years, died Oct. 7 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. He was 84.
Father Depinet was in the Philippines, 1961-1991 and …
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Sister Maryellen Smith, O.S.F., who served at the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin on Staten Island for 13 years, died Oct. 7 at Wartburg Campus in Mount Vernon. She was 85.
Sister Maryellen was …
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Sister Jane Tyler, O.P., who served for many years as a teacher in the archdiocese, died Oct. 20 at Siena Hall in Dominican Convent in Sparkill. She was 88.
Sister Jane was a business and computer …
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The national feast of Thanksgiving brings me warm memories...family; prayer, Mass, and food drives for the poor at the parish; grandparents, aunts and uncles now passed onto eternity; two free days …
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After a month out of the country, working in Rome at Synod-2018 and helping mark the 40th anniversary of John Paul II’s election at events in Brussels and Warsaw, I came home to find Catholic anger …
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What would induce a beautiful young woman with an acting career moving into high gear in Hollywood to chuck it away, turn her back on the camera and enter a monastery?
And what might a young woman …
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